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The cluster abundance and its redshift evolution are known to be a powerful tool to constrain the amplitude of mass fluctuations \sigma_8 and the mass density parameter \Omega_m0. We study the impact of the finite decay rate of cold dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masamune Oguri , Keitaro Takahashi , Hiroshi Ohno , Kei Kotake

(abridged)We use a sample of ~200,000 galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to study how clustering depends on properties such as stellar mass (M*), colour (g-r), 4000A break strength (D4000), concentration index (C), and stellar…

The newly installed Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on the Hubble Space Telescope has been used to obtain multi-band images of the nearby spiral galaxy M83. These new observations are the deepest and highest resolution images ever taken of a…

An analysis of the star cluster population in a low-luminosity early type galaxy, NGC 2328, is presented. The clusters are found in a tight star-forming nuclear spiral/ring pattern and we also identify a bar from structural 2D…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Petri Vaisanen , Sudhanshu Barway , Zara Randriamanakoto

The cluster environment is the site of important transformations in galaxies at a relatively recent cosmological epoch: the galactic morphological types and star formation activity have evolved significantly during the last few Gyrs. How is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bianca M. Poggianti , Jacqueline H. van Gorkom

Currently clusters/associations of stars are mainly detected as surface density enhancements relative to the background field. While clusters form, their surface density increases. It likely decreases again at the end of the star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Susanne Pfalzner , Kirsten Vincke , Mai Xiang

We study the formation of globular clusters (GCs) in a Milky Way-size galaxy using a high-resolution cosmological simulation. The clusters in our model form in the dense cores of supergiant molecular clouds in the gaseous disks of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrey V. Kravtsov , Oleg Y. Gnedin

We compare the observed bivariate distribution of masses(M) and ages(t) of star clusters in the LMC with the predicted distributions g(M,t) from 3 idealized models for the disruption of star clusters: (1)sudden mass-dependent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-13 Rupali Chandar , S. Michael Fall , Bradley C. Whitmore

The age of globular clusters inferred from observations depends sensitively on assumptions such as the initial helium abundance and the mass loss rate. A high helium abundance (e.g., $Y\approx$0.28), as well as an inclusion of helium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Xiangdong Shi

The evolution of star clusters is studied using N-body simulations in which the evolution of single stars and binaries are taken self-consistently into account. Initial conditions are chosen to represent relatively young Galactic open…

Cosmological LambdaCDM TreeSPH simulations of the formation and evolution of galaxy groups and clusters have been performed. The simulations include: star formation, chemical evolution with non-instantaneous recycling, metal dependent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessio D. Romeo , J. Sommer-Larsen , L. Portinari

Globular Cluster (GC) formation seems to be a widespread mode of star formation in extreme starbursts triggered by strong interactions and mergers of massive gas-rich galaxies. We use our detailed chemically consistent evolutionary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-10 Uta Fritze -- v. Alvensleben

The collective properties of star clusters are investigated using a simulation of the collision between two dwarf galaxies. The characteristic power law of the cluster mass function, N(M), with a logarithmic slope d\log N/d\log M ~ -1, is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-16 Bruce G. Elmegreen , Natalia Lahen

We have used a combination of high resolution cosmological N-body simulations and semi-analytic modelling of galaxy formation to investigate the processes that determine the spatial distribution of galaxies in cold dark matter (CDM) models.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. J. Benson , S. Cole , C. S. Frenk , C. M. Baugh , C. G. Lacey

We use the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope to study the rich population of young massive star clusters in the main body of NGC 3256, a merging pair of galaxies with a high star formation rate (SFR) and SFR per unit…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 Alexander J. Mulia , Rupali Chandar , Bradley C. Whitmore

We explore galaxy properties and their link with environment and clustering using a population of ~1000 galaxies formed in a high resolution hydrodynamic simulation of the Lambda CDM cosmology. At the redshift we concentrate on, z=1, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Rupert A. C. Croft , Tiziana Di Matteo , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

We studied the effects of cluster environments on galactic structures by using the TNG50 cosmological simulation and observed galaxies in the Fornax cluster. We focused on galaxies with stellar masses of $10^{8-12}M_{\odot}$ at z=0 that…

To study how the environment can influence the relation between stellar mass and effective radius of nearby galaxies (z < 0.12), we use a mass-complete sample extracted from the NYU-Value Added Catalogue. This sample contains almost 232000…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 María Cebrián , Ignacio Trujillo

Using the apparatus of correlation Gamma-function (``conditional density''), we have analyzed spatial clustering of objects from several different samples of galaxies, clusters and superclusters. On small scales the distribution of objects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Tikhonov , D. I. Makarov , A. I. Kopylov

We analyze the physical properties of stellar clusters that are detected in massive star-forming regions in the MYStIX project--a comparative, multiwavelength study of young stellar clusters within 3.6 kpc that contain at least one O-type…